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42 Issue 552. July 2013
Life & Leisure
amed the No. 1 World Artist
on Billboard magazine’s
internationally recognised music
charts for the seventh time in
2012, Celtic Woman combines the
talents of four gifted Irish women –
vocalists Chloë Agnew, Lisa Lambe
and Susan McFadden, with violinist Máiréad Nesbitt – in
a spectacular show featuring traditional Irish pipes and
dance with a full backing choir and band.
Co-created in 2004 by David Downes, former Music
Director of the Irish stage show Riverdance, Celtic
Woman’s dazzling performances combine the sounds
and sensibility of Irish traditional music with memorable
original compositions and contemporary pop classics
such as “You Raise Me Up” and “Orinoco Flow”.
The 2013 tour will see the homecoming of Craig
Ashurst, one of the Australia’s most awarded dancers and
currently the lead male with Riverdance as the show tours
Europe and North America.
Over the years there have been a number of line-up
changes, and this year ’s tour will be the first in Australia
for Celtic Woman member Susan McFadden.
“I am so excited to be touring Australia with Celtic
Woman this September,” Susan says. “I was in Australia
for promo with the girls last year and it was so amazing
getting to meet our Australian fans. We’re all so excited to
be coming back. September can’t get here soon enough!”
Susan is the younger sister of former Westlife member
and Australia’s Got Talent judge Brian McFadden.
“It makes me laugh, but my big brother won’t be in
Australia when we tour, he’ll actually be back performing
in the UK, so it’s like we’ve swapped. I’ll miss him!”
Celtic Woman is firmly established as both a spectacular
commercial success and a genuine cultural phenomenon.
The ensemble’s evocative, uplifting music transcends
national and cultural borders with all the emotional
resonance of Ireland’s centuries-old musical and
cultural heritage.
“ The Irish are around all the four corners of the earth,”
Susan says, “so I really feel like part of something bigger.
I suppose what makes Irish music so distinctive is its
storytelling. You have to feel like that person whose story
it is.”
Born in Dublin, Susan trained from a young age at the
famous Billie Barry Stage School while performing in
theatre and television. She landed her first professional
lead role at the age of 11 in the title role of Annie, before
playing the role of Kathy in a 2004 Irish production of
Singing in the Rain to much acclaim.
Susan then came to national attention when she won
the hugely successful UK reality TV show Grease Is The
Word, gaining the lead female role of Sandy in the West
End production of Grease in London, beginning in August
2007. Auditions for the Australian version of Grease Is The
Word began in Sydney this May, attracting around 700
local singers and dancers for their chance to shine in this
iconic musical.
However, it was her role as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde
the Musical at London’s famous Savoy theatre that gave
her career a massive lift, a show that has gained huge
popularity in Australia since its March debut in Brisbane.
This September will see the return of Celtic
Woman to Australia, one of the country’s most
popular world music acts, for the first time since
their first hugely successful 2010 tour.
N
Celtic Woman
on tour with spectacular new show
Words: Nick Ransley